so the next day’s job was to finish moving the besa-blocks and see what was actually there in terms of soil. as i mentioned in the previous post, one very large garden in the back yard is six inches below the surface of the lawn – i’m still scratching my head as to how that happened as there’s not heaped-up beds anywhere else.
once they were moved i raked it out and left it – not sure yet whether i’ll be re-planting there at this point, between the pump track i want and the lack of winter sun in that spot. if anything, it’ll be deciduous fruit canes or perhaps a Pecan tree.
next job was out the front to plant Chinese chives seed on the garden side of the front path and mulch down with my grass clippings.
mowing the lawn with my vintage barrel mower was fun – i’d let the lawn get too long and it was a pain. i think i need wider bars 🙂
the next job i’d like to tackle – apart from cutting down these two 3m melaleucas and turning them into next-year’s firewood – is the cooch grass that’s growing between the backyard pavers. some are hopelessly cracked because the previous owner dug a garden bed next to them and later drove up over the top and parked a fourby there. so i’ll be replacing some and sorting that out, and in the meantime i’ll experiment with Borax as a weed killer to save my aching back – i spent two days chipping the grass our by hand and it’s a long, slow process, i tell you!
now i’m sitting here writing, watching the rain thru the window while the delicious smell of slowcooker pea-and-ham soup fills the house. life is very good, indeed.
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